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Can we make this the general Olympics thread? Didn't see one and the Paddock has been moved.
Stolz is the real deal, fast as heck. Love his training regime, too. Home built gym in a barn.
Lot of choking by some of our skiers though.. Definitely disappointed.
Stolz is the real deal, fast as heck. Love his training regime, too. Home built gym in a barn.
Lot of choking by some of our skiers though.. Definitely disappointed.
No bigger choke in Olympics history than Ilya Malinins performance!
Ehh, pretty much the same thing happened to Nathan Chen at his first Olympics in 2018. He came back and dominated his way to gold in 2022.
Ill be up in Lake placid the weekend after the Olympics is over. Bummer at the timing.. wpuld have loved to be there during the final few events and closing ceremonies.
How are you watching it? I'm having a hard time keeping up with it all so I watch the night show and am trying to watch some full curling matches and of course hockey. I guess it gets easier to see eveything as it winds down.
The skiers who were in first and only had to finish 7th in singles was ridiculous as well. The female skier who hadn’t lost in like two years didn’t medal.
The timing isn't ideal. Some of these events are finishing as early as 4am ET. The best bet is to just try and stay off social media so you dont see the spoiler of who won, and they will generally show replays of all the pertinent events as the day goes on.
Its impossible to catch everything, I just try and make sure I get a little of everything. Ill try to catch all the skiing I can.
I feel like Dual Moguls is another sport that the US sort of got shafted. I really dont trust any event with judges, some **** always comes up. For the moguls in the women's semi-finals, we had 4 women in each match.. and two of them should have scored higher because of the tricks they had, and the technical, despite not "winning" the race. Both announcers were US of course. So they may be biased.. but they both mentioned how those two women should advance because of the above, and the judges were like "nope", Australia's moves on. And that was that. Thankfully we still took home i think silver and bronze.. but it could have been a 1, 2, 3, 4 finish
Yep, and Mac Forehand got screwed out of gold as well. Announcers figured he won based on what they know about the scoring system. Nope, Silver. Only Olympian to land and 2160. But nope gold goes to the guy who did a 1620. Lol.
Sure seems like any event where there are judges, the US has to be markedly better to win. Cant just be a little better, or they will find ways to give the medals to anyone else.
Sure seems like any event where there are judges, the US has to be markedly better to win. Cant just be a little better, or they will find ways to give the medals to anyone else.
Scoring with the goalie pulled was awesome
Amazing. And this photo is one of the greatest sports photos in recent memory.
So many dominant performances. I thought Shiffrins race was the best performance so far, but Alysa Liu's gold skating performance was unreal. The commentator said it perfectly: shes not performing out there, she's playing. It honestly looked effortless.
The craziest thing to me is these are like 5 minute routines. And you have an entirely unique dance for the entire time. Nothing looks duplicated or in any sort of pattern/rhythm. Just insane to remember that from start fo finish while throwing in extremely technical moves, on skates.
When people say the Olympics bore them, and especially the winter ones, I cant help but watch almost all of these events and enjoy it just for how tough these events are. I find it captivating TV just for the "how do they do this stuff?" Aspect .
When people say the Olympics bore them, and especially the winter ones, I cant help but watch almost all of these events and enjoy it just for how tough these events are. I find it captivating TV just for the "how do they do this stuff?" Aspect .
Its been awesome with all the snow coming down. A+ TV IMO.
Another thought.. these olympics feel like they have more stars than in some of the past olympics. You have Alysa Lui who is bringing figure skating back, Stolz the quad god, Eileen Gu and Amber Glenn as sort of "heels" in these Olympics.. you got Lindsay Vonn's sad ending and Shiffrins return to Gold. And some lesser names but still dominant careers like Alex Hall and Chloe kim.
And those are just individuals.. theres gonna be more names to pop up when the team sports finish, like hockey and curling.
And those are just individuals.. theres gonna be more names to pop up when the team sports finish, like hockey and curling.
I don’t watch much skating, but Liu’s routine came through my feed. What a transcendent athlete to move at two speeds like that, dancing so gracefully while skating so fast. Just masterful.
There will be a movie about Liu and her father.
Watch and see.
Watch and see.
There was money to be made parlaying Canada losing late with the US win. Opening line on the gold medal game is as close to a pickem as you get. Canada -113, US -106.
All athletes should put forth the effort both teams are playing with in this hockey game. Some good 9 in the morning entertainment.
Never imagined the winter Olympic game where they slide the stones on the ice would be more exciting than UK ball. Sad times
edit: curling..
edit: curling..
